Reduction - Abstraction - Analysis (eBook)

Proceedings of the 31th International Ludwig Wittgenstein-Symposium in Kirchberg, 2008

Alexander Hieke, Hannes Leitgeb (Herausgeber)

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2009 | 1. Auflage
414 Seiten
Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.KG (Verlag)
978-3-11-032887-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Philosophers often have tried to either reduce 'disagreeable' objects or concepts to (more) acceptable objects or concepts. Reduction is regarded attractive by those who subscribe to an ideal of ontological parsimony. But the topic is not just restricted to traditional metaphysics or ontology. In the philosophy of mathematics, abstraction principles, such as Hume's principle, have been suggested to support a reconstruction of mathematics by logical means only. In the philosophy of language and the philosophy of science, the logical analysis of language has long been regarded to be the dominating paradigm, and liberalized projects of logical reconstruction remain to be driving forces of modern philosophy.

This volume collects contributions comprising all those topics, including articles by Alexander Bird, Jaakko Hintikka, James Ladyman, Rohit Parikh, Gerhard Schurz, Peter Simons, Crispin Wright and Edward N. Zalta.

Inhalt

I.Reduction 11
A PROOF OF NOMINALISM:AN EXERCISE IN SUCCESSFUL REDUCTION IN LOGIC JAAKKO HINTIKKA 13
PRESERVATION OF EMPIRICAL SUCCESS AND INTERTHEORETICAL CORRESPONDENCE: JUSTIFYING REALISM WITHOUT THE NO MIRACLES ARGUMENT GERHARD SCHURZ 27
EMPIRICAL ADEQUACY AND RAMSIFICATION, II JEFFREY KETLAND 41
ELIMINATING MODALITY FROM THE DETERMINISM DEBATE?MODELS VS. EQUATIONS OF PHYSICAL THEORIES THOMAS MÜLLER 59
DETERMINISTIC VERSUS INDETERMINISTIC DESCRIPTIONS:NOT THAT DIFFERENT AFTER ALL? CHARLOTTE WERNDL 75
THE “MULTIREALIZATION” OF MULTIPLE REALIZABILITY HOLGER LYRE 91
PESSIMISTIC META-INDUCTION AND THE EXPONENTIAL GROWTH OF SCIENCE1 LUDWIG FAHRBACH 107
WEAK PHYSICALISM AND SPECIAL SCIENCE ONTOLOGY JAMES LADYMAN 125
ARE NATURAL KINDS REDUCIBLE?ALEXANDER BIRD 139
ONTIC GENERATION: GETTING EVERYTHING FROM THE BASICS PETER SIMONS 149
WHAT REDUCTIONISTS BELIEVE IN Christian Kanzian 165
SUPERVENIENCE AND MORAL REALISM ALISON HILLS 175
ALTERNATIVE REDUCTIONS FOR DYNAMIC DEONTIC LOGICS ALBERT J.J. ANGLBERGER 191
II.Abstraction 205
THE METAPHYSICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY OF ABSTRACTION* CRISPIN WRIGHT 207
HOW ABSTRACTION WORKS LEON HORSTEN and HANNES LEITGEB 229
THIN OBJECTS ØYSTEIN LINNEBO 239
RUSSELL’S MANY POINTS THOMAS MORMANN 251
FROM DESCRIPTIVE FUNCTIONS TO SETS OF ORDERED PAIRS1 BERNARD LINSKY 271
DIAGONALIZATION, THE LIAR PARADOX, AND THE INCONSISTENCY OF THE FORMAL SYSTEM PRESENTED IN THE APPENDIX TO FREGE’S GRUNDGESETZE: VOLUME II ROY T COOK 285
A PROBLEM AND A SOLUTION FOR NEO-FREGEANISM* MICHAEL GABBAY 301
ED ZALTA’S VERSION OF NEO-LOGICISM –A FRIENDLY LETTER OF COMPLAINT Philip A. Ebert 317
REPLY TO P. EBERT AND M. ROSSBERG’S FRIENDLY LETTER OF COMPLAINT EDWARD N. ZALTA 323
III.Analysis 333
ON THE BENEFITS OF AREDUCTION OF MODAL PREDICATES TO MODAL OPERATORS VOLKER HALBACH 335
CALCULI OF INDIVIDUALS AND SOME EXTENSIONS: AN OVERVIEW* KARL-GEORG NIEBERGALL 347
DEFINITE DESCRIPTIONS: LANGUAGE, LOGIC, AND ELIMINATION NORBERT GRATZL 367
FROM LANGUAGE GAMES TO SOCIAL SOFTWARE ROHIT PARIKH 377
ON THE RELATION BETWEEN GAMES IN EXTENSIVE FORM AND GAMES IN STRATEGIC FORM SIMON M. HUTTEGGER 389
TWO ACCOUNTS OF SIMILARITY COMPARED LIEVEN DECOCK and IGOR DOUVEN 401
CONTEXTUALISM, RELATIVISM, AND FACTIVITY.ANALYZING ‘KNOWLEDGE’ AFTER THE NEW LINGUISTIC TURN IN EPISTEMOLOGY ELKE BRENDEL 415

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.5.2009
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• ISBN-10: 3-11-032887-9 / 3110328879
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-032887-5 / 9783110328875